LORD TENNYSON

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying*

O love, they die in yon rich sky,

They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

��70 f. Summer Night

TVTOW sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;

• ^ Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ;

Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The firefly wakens : waken thou with me.

Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.

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